tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18600515.post5035902761065554788..comments2023-07-02T09:22:57.566-05:00Comments on Confessions of a Train Geek: 125 Years Since the Last SpikeCanadian Train Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05525092107895665275noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18600515.post-28738064370951218632010-11-01T20:08:48.962-05:002010-11-01T20:08:48.962-05:00I knew it was November 7... I guess I didn't s...I knew it was November 7... I guess I didn't set the posting date right when I wrote the post. :)Canadian Train Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05525092107895665275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18600515.post-67659649259837426402010-11-01T19:40:42.091-05:002010-11-01T19:40:42.091-05:00A little early for celebrating!
On November 7, 18...A little early for celebrating!<br /><br />On <b>November 7, 1885,</b> Sir Donald Alexander Smith (Lord Strathcona), a director of the company, raised his hammer and struck the final blow to the last, plain iron spike in the country's first transcontinental railway. The resting place of the last spike was named Craigellachie Station after a prominent crag in a village on the River Spey in Morayshire, Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen, first president of the CPR.Robert in Port Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807813545873570119noreply@blogger.com